X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/c5e5f07eb8b18c5c6192fcb206dc09b1fc9315e7..b74d2d3af3238210bfafe57562d3670327918cd9:/doc/apt-cache.8.xml diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index 789c3d228..6c8938d8c 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ rdepends pkg pkgnames prefix dotty pkg + xvcg pkg policy pkgs madison pkgs @@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ Reverse Provides: a dependency but were not provided by any package. Missing packages may be in evidence if a full distribution is not accessed, or if a package (real or virtual) has been dropped from the distribution. Usually they - are referenced from Conflicts statements. + are referenced from Conflicts or Breaks statements. Total distinct versions is the number of package versions @@ -197,9 +198,14 @@ Reverse Provides: search regex [ regex ... ] search performs a full text search on all available package - lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the + lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see + regex + 7. + It searches the package names and the descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out - the package name and the short description. If is given + the package name and the short description, including virtual package + names. + If is given then output identical to show is produced for each matched package, and if is given then the long description is not searched, only the package name is. @@ -244,6 +250,11 @@ Reverse Provides: Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages. + xvcg pkg(s) + The same as dotty, only for xvcg from the + VCG tool. + + policy [ pkg(s) ] policy is meant to help debug issues relating to the preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the @@ -277,7 +288,7 @@ Reverse Provides: Select the file to store the source cache. The source is used only by gencaches and it stores a parsed version of the package information from remote sources. When building the package cache the - source cache is used to advoid reparsing all of the package files. + source cache is used to avoid reparsing all of the package files. Configuration Item: Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache. @@ -289,7 +300,7 @@ Reverse Provides: - Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet. Causes only Depends and + Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet and depends. Causes only Depends and Pre-Depends relations to be printed. Configuration Item: APT::Cache::Important.